Stephen Colbert, Like the Rest of the Country, Is Sick of Talking About Trump

It's no secret that the nation's water cooler conversation centers around Donald Trump. And Colbert, as the host of a major network program that's watched by a good chunk of the nation, must comment on that water cooler conversation, night after night. But now, Trump is calling to ban all Muslims from entering the country.

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"I don't know why everyone is so surprised; Trump has already proven he's willing to offend every group in America except for white people," Colbert said last night. "It's his entire electoral strategy: Trump says something shocking, then all of us on TV spend days repeating it giving him millions of dollars of free air time. So I would rather not give him more of it."

Instead, Colbert spoke about some of those other people running for president that we've completely forgotten about. What about Hillary Clinton? We haven't discussed her for a bit, as she's been laying low, letting Trump destroy himself and the GOP. What about Ben Carson? It's been a while since he put us to sleep. Colbert reminds us about Carson's inability to pronounce Hamas, oddly using Jimmy Fallon's same falafel joke from last week. Then there's also Jeb Bush, whose plummeting campaign causes Colbert to repeatedly black out. It's refreshing hearing about these other people, but there's no way it's going to last.